6-1-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - ”Cello, I Must Be Going!”

Greetings!

By the time you hear this, I'll have already returned from my 2 week jaunt to the wilds of Alaska, but I couldn't resist the episode's title focused on compositions for cello and derived, NOT from the 2012 film I've never seen, OR Phil Collins' second solo album from 1982, BUT the 1930 classic Marx Brothers film, "Animal Crackers"!  

That being said, I digress.  Enjoy a panoply of cello stylings from the finest cellists and composers of our times.

Joel

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6-1-24 PTE Playlist: "Cello, I Must Be Going!"

 

• Orange and yellow II - cellos:  Dan Barrett / Stanislav Orlavsky / composer: Dominique Lemaître - De l’espace trouver la fin et le milieu (of space finding the end and the middle): Dan Barrett plays Dominique Lemaître - New Focus Recordings (2020)
• https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/de-lespace-trouver-la-fin-et-le-milieu-dan-barrett-plays-dominique-lemaitre/ 

 

• Cello and Orchestra - cello: Robert Cohen / New World Symphony, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas / composer: Morton Feldman - Coptic Light - Argo (1998)

 

• Miles Per Hour / Bones - Lung - Let It Be Gone - Romanus Records (2022)
• https://lunglunglung.bandcamp.com/album/let-it-be-gone 
  

 

• Nomos Alpha - cello: Pierre Strauch / composer: Iannis Xenakis - Various Works - Erato (1992)
• https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/686273/686433  

 

• Night Music - cello: Eric Kutz / composer: Robert Gibson - Flux and Fire - Innova (2018)
• https://www.innova.mu/albums/robert-gibson/flux-and-fire 

 

• Descent Into Shame - Cellista - Élégie - Soundtrack to the Stage Poem (for static trapeze, silent film, and cello) - digital album (2024)
• https://cellista.bandcamp.com/track/descent-into-shame 

 

• Hellhound - cello: Maya Beiser / composer: David T. Little - tranceclassical - Innova (2016)
• https://www.innova.mu/albums/maya-beiser/tranceclassical 

 

• Batzal - Erik Friedlander - Grains of Paradise - Tzadik (2001)
• https://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7154 

 

• BABEL(maya)—f(f(1)): I. PortRait_8,**NYC10 
  BABEL(maya)—f(f(1)): V. PortRaitS_10&11,**NYC2012 - Pat Muchmore - BABEL: fragments - Innova (2016)
• https://www.innova.mu/albums/pat-muchmore/babel-fragments 
  

 

• Not Alone - cello & electronics: Seth Parker Woods / composer: George Lewis - The Recombinant Trilogy - New Focus Recordings (2021)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-recombinant-trilogy